Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken vs. Evanger's Maximum Beef for Ferrets

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Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Evanger's's ratio of 1.54 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Evanger's has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Evanger's has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Evanger's is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 5th ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Evanger's's ratio of 1.54 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken meal turkey meal menhaden fish meal peas chicken fat tapioca natural flavor dried tomato pomace montmorillonite clay

Evanger's Maximum Beef for Ferrets

Evanger's has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Evanger's has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Evanger's is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 5th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

beef water whole dried egg taurine liver chelated minerals calcium carbonate zinc sulfate ferrous sulfate zinc proteinate

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken

Kibble

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Evanger's Maximum Beef for Ferrets

Canned

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Score
F
Score
C
Food Type Kibble Canned
Meat % Unknown Unknown
Protein % 41% 10%
Fat % 21% 6.5%
Fiber % 3% 1%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.95 to 1 1.54 to 1
Total Ingredients 18 7
Meat Content 9 total
high concentration, high quality
3 total
high concentration, high quality
Non-Meats 7 total
low concentration
None
Pea-free No, 5th Ingredient Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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